When we keep our priorities balanced across all seven areas, we may spend a little less time on our business, but we’re actually more productive!Īction Plan! Better Work-Life Balance THIS WEEK! When we spend all of our time obsessing over our business, we’re less productive and less happy. This couldn’t be truer in our life and business.
But it’ll turn smoothly and effectively when the weight is distributed evenly to all seven sections. It’ll turn slowly and bumpily when the weight of the wheel is spread across only one or two sections. Zig Ziglar teaches that there are seven sections in The Wheel of Life.Īccording to Zig, the wheel can’t turn when all the weight is focused in one section. The Secret to Work-Life Balance: The Wheel of Life The good news, is that even though it might seem counterintuitive, every book and study we’ve read proves that we perform better as professionals and get more done when we work less hours more intentionally, with more focused intensity, instead of more hours where we’re unintentional, distracted or rocking the “multi-tasking” myth. Because if one part of the body is being taken care of, but the rest is being neglected, it doesn’t take long before the whole body is sick. If we want to build a successful business that last five, ten, fifteen years (or more) we have to figure out how to make sure that it’s one component of an overall healthy life. Again, kidding.īut, seriously, how do we keep those imbalances from becoming permanent? It’s true, there’ll be seasons of your life when things are unbalanced, where you’re giving more attention to your family and less to your business, or vice versa.Īs long as it just stays that way for a short season. When you’re getting pulled in so many directions, it’s hard sometimes to know where to direct your precious time and energy, because there are only so many hours in the day, and there’s only so much of you. It starts with recognizing a simple truth that we learned from famous author and motivational speaker, Zig Ziglar: Yeah, over the long haul, we believe we can.
The million dollar question then of course, is this: It gives us deep personal fulfillment and satisfaction, and we know it makes a difference in real people’s lives, too.
For their relationships.īut we love our business. But some people don’t see the warning signs until it’s too late. We touched the hot stove with our family and it burned us just bad enough for us to recognize it and make a course correction. Unfortunately, the people and things you value most might not be there waiting on the other side. If we could press pause on everything else - Just for a while, we reasoned - we could get through the dark tunnel faster. Eat, drink, breath our business, and sleep only as much as necessary. Mistakenly, we thought that, in order to build a successful business, we had to put the rest of our life on hold for a few years. What we realize now, is that we were giving ourselves a false choice. So if you’re in those early years, to quote Zeek Braverman from Parenthood, we see you, and we hear you. Because it’s impossible to “get it” until you’ve gone through it. People who’ve never done it just don’t understand it. It takes everything you’ve got… and then some. Because building a business is a lot of work - especially at the beginning. Like we had to choose between a successful business and being successful in the rest of our life. We felt stuck between a rock and a hard place. We wanted balance, but we didn’t know how to get it. Because no business is worth your own family not inviting you to dinner because you’ve said “no” so many times, they just assume you’ll say “no” again.
This is just a really bad week… This month is just a little crazy… Once we’re out of wedding season, we’ll have more time. And on… and on… and on… Our feelings were hurt, but we’re big believers in self-awareness and when we took an objective look in the mirror, it was pretty obvious: it was our fault. Because we said “no” so many times before. Anyone else? We’re embarrassed to admit this, but there was a season of our life where we were working so hard to build our business - long hours, late nights - that one night, we saw a picture on social media of our entire family.
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